Madigan proposes People's Power: HB4091

Some might call it Socialism, which has never been a bad word for me; but then a nobler kind of Socialist comes to my mind when I hear the word: a Mayor who never would have contemplated responding to police brutality with a lecture on relaxing.

From the Southern with a HT to MrBillB over at Prairie State Blue.

Illinois government should get into the electricity business with a state-run, non-profit power agency, the leader of the Illinois House proposed Tuesday, in legislation that savages Ameren and ComEd for recent rate hikes and service failures.

House Speaker Michael Madigan, one of the state's most powerful Democrats, filed a bill Tuesday afternoon to create a publicly owned power authority that would use Illinois coal to generate and sell electricity to state residents at cost.

Now, if we can own the juice, why can't we own our own chunk of America's Economic power with Social Security ownership accounts?

Or what about Walmart Mr. Speaker? If you follow the Democrat's neo-Populist rhetoric, and think it's right for the 21st Century, you've got to hand it to Speaker Madigan for at least not playing games about it.

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